MoOHE— the Mosses of Ireland. 
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Sect. 1. Puhmatce, Wils. 
Diagnosis of Species, 
Inflorescence monoicous. 
Stems densely tufted. 
Capsules drooping, 8-furrowed, . . 1. G. pulvinata. 
Capsules faintly striated, orbicular, . , . 2. Gr. oebicitlaeis. 
Sect. 2. Trichophyllce. Wils. 
Inflorescence dioicous. 
Stems either loosely or densely tufted. 
Leaves, only the upper on stem hair -pointed, 3. G. spiralis. 
Leaves three-ranked, spirally twisted when 
dry, 4. G. toeqxjata. 
Leaves lax, flexuose, gradually tapering to a 
hair point, 5. G. trichophylla. 
''Leaves appressed when dry — erecto-patent 
when moist — lowest short and muti- 
cous from a slightly contracted ovate v 
base becoming lanceolate ; upper longer, 
gradually tapering into a nearly smooth 
hair point, one-third to half length of 
lamina, keeled at back with the strong 
nerve ; margin recurved in the lower 
half ; cells quadrate incrassate, those at 
centre of base elongated, above minute 
and irregular in outline ; a single row at 
the margin of basal wing hyaline." 
Braithwaite, in ''Journal of Botany," 
July, 1872, 6. G. eobtjsta. 
Leaves, elongate, lanceolate, the uppermost 
secund, . . . . . . 7. G. Haetmanni. 
Leaves crowded, lanceolate, subsecund, gra- 
dually tapering into a long rough dia- 
phanous point, margins recurved. In- 
florescence monoicous, . . . 8. G. SoHULTzn. 
